About Arnav Wadhwa

Arnav Wadhwa is an AI product builder and founder working across consumer AI and B2B software.

Founder and AI Product Builder, previously ML Research SWE. Independent founder and product builder. Based in India.

Experience

Founder and product builder, Independent (2024–present)
Founding Engineer, InferenceBook, Inc. (2024–2025)
Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs (2023–2024) — Worked on real-time provider ranking and billion-scale time-series data hygiene.
Machine Learning Researcher, ACES Lab, UC San Diego (2022–2023)
Machine Learning Engineer, MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi (2020–2021) — Worked on quantitative trading and applied NLP in India’s most well-published research team in 2021.
Machine Learning Engineer, CSIR, India AI Mission (2018–2020)
Software Engineering Intern, Indian Space Research Organisation (2017–2018)
Machine Learning Intern, CEERI, Government of India (2017–2017) — Built real-time FPGA eye-blink detection software with 99%+ accuracy.

Education

MS, Computer Science, University of California San Diego (2021–2023); 4.0/4.0
B.Tech, GGSIPU, Delhi; Final-year department rank #4

Selected public highlights

Face Unlock work reached 1.1M+ devices.
Teams in 400+ cities across 60+ countries use Arnav’s work.
Published 12 papers, including 10+ in under two years.
Reached 100 citations in 2022.
YC reported the application was in the top 10% of applicants.
Runner-up among 110 teams at the Dr. Homi Bhabha National Innovation Challenge.
Received the Outstanding Paper Award at COLING 2020.
The COLING paper was designated top 16 among 2,319 submissions.
All three COLING reviewers gave the paper 5/5.
The core COLING research was completed in a two-week research window.
ICDM accepted 91 papers from 930 submissions.

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